As others have said, publishers fund the developers. And the story is that if developers want to have their games published they would do well to abide by their suggestions e.g to accept drm on their games.

Kickstarter or the European similarity to Kickstarter makes developers free of these bonds -or, as we say in Denmark, dance to the publisher's tune...

Yes, you can burn the download to a disk. And they're also offering it DRM free, which means you actually own the game. No having to be connected to the internet to to activate and no limited activations.

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Thanks Carla. I am glad another adventure game may see the light of day.

I have checked out the gamesplanet lab page and am not sure which method to choose for the payment - normally I'd go for Pay pal but it says no amount and 'fture paymentS' which worries me a little as it is not clear from the paypal page that this will be for the amount I want to pledge and only once. What do you guys think?

I can't stand Pendulo games but I actually thought Runaway 1 was rather entertaining. Every game they put out I cross my fingers that they go back to whatever they did to make that game, but always in vain. I'd probably be tempted to give a few dollars too. But as this will no doubt turn out like The Next Big Thing, I'll pass.

I think it is down to the site to give Paypal the info - I just made a pledge for another game trying to raise funds, and it was also using Paypal and the process was very straightforward and the amount I was pledging was clearly stated and it was clear it was a one time payment and the amount of money was displayed. I am going to pass on pledging on this one.

re the game, I have to agree with wincey and say I too did not think the next big thing was that good and I have blanked that one out of mind.

I do realise they are doing this to raise money so they can make games like the runaway series they say, but I do wonder what the game might end up like.

Also I might have given them a few quid if they could have set up the payment info for Paypal in a clear way that meant I knew what I was signing up for - if the other sites can manage it with Paypal in a clear way this issue is down to this developer/gamesplanet lab setup.